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From Vanessa Rousso's blog
This guy has major problems.
I get moved to a new table with 12000 in chips. I am there less than 10 hands when I get dealt AJ suited on the button (6 handed tournament by the way). Checks to cutoff short stack player who raises to 600 (100, 200 blinds). I call. Aggressive big stack in the big blind re raises to 2000 (this is an important note…this player did this several times before in only the last ten hands, either he was being hit with the deck or he was steamrolling with his 25K+ stack when average stack was only 6K or so, so he can’t be given too much credit). Small stack pushes all in for 2150 (which means if I call the big blind big stack can’t re-raise because 150 is not considered an actual raise). I make an aggressive call of 1550 more because I was getting more than 3:1 on my money, we were shorthanded so AJ is stronger than in ring games, and I still have a healthy 10K (almost double average) stack even if I lose. Flop comes A A 2 rainbow. Big stack checks and I check. 10 comes on the turn putting up a flush draw. Big stack checks and I bet 2K with my trip aces. Big stack insta-pushes all in for my remaining 8K. This was a very difficult decision. I didn’t think he would push so fast without thinking first with an Ace (it wasn't like he tought about how to get the most out of me which is what a player with trips would do in that scenario)…then I remembered something he said after I called the 2150 pre-flop. He asked the dealer if he could re-raise. The way he said it, he didn’t seem to be happy about a 3-way pot. This made me feel confident he possessed a big pair. He couldn’t have aces since I had an ace. So that left KK, QQ, JJ, and Tens. I thought that he was aggressive enough to put this kind of move on with KK since the pot was so big and given his past play. But eventually I settled on the fact that he had Tens, he hit the two-outer on the turn and realized I must have trip aces and thought he could easily get my whole stack right there with a push all in.
That left me with one more thing to think about before I settled on a fold. Was I getting the pot odds to call even if I was behind? I had one ace in the deck, three jacks, and three twos to help me…that is 7 outs…but with only one card to come that is about 14% so I need to get more than 6:1 to make the call. I would only be getting about half that, so folding was the right play. At this point seat one (another player not in the hand) calls time and I am forced to make a decision. All in all I took maybe 4 minutes to make what was one of the toughest lay downs I have had to make in a while. I muck the Ace and show it, and the big stack says good read and shows the pocket tens. I was really happy to have made the correct decision, so when the big stack apologized for sucking out I smiled and said “that’s poker, nice hand.” Then I turned to the table generally and said, “Hey guys sorry that took so long, I hate to do that but it was for my tournament life and as you can see it was a really tough lay down.”
I wish that was the end of the story. As the dealer is dealing the next hand, someone I have never before seen or heard of in seat five (who wasn’t even in the hand) says in my general direction, “You are awful.” I turned to him and said, “Excuse me, what did you just say?” He looked me square in the eye and said, “You are awful, you played the whole hand like an idiot, you let him get there.” I just lost half my stack and this random guy is seriously going to needle me??!?!? Are you kidding me, is he for real? I say to him, “I’m sorry…am I confused? Did you buy me in? Because I could have sworn I bought myself in to this tournament. So I will tell you what: when you are the one ponying up 2500$ for me, then I will play like you think I should. But as long as I’m paying my own buyins, I am going to play the way I see fit.” It should have ended right there.
He looks me straight in the eye again and says, “You are pathetic.” I turn away and say, “You know what? You aren’t even worth it, I’m ignoring you from here on out.” He still will not quit. He says, “Not worth what, Idiot?” I ignore him and he calls me “pathetic” yet again, mumbling other comments in between half-smirks for the next ten minutes. He really, really, really went too far. In the end, I did not even give him the time of day for the next 30 minutes until I was eliminated.
I later found out that the guy was Aaron Been. I read Aaron’s twoplustwo post where he says I called the big stack an idiot with kings. He is a liar—and that doesn’t even make any sense, why would I (or anyone) have said that when the guy had TENS!!!! Moreover, I, unlike others, do not need to stoop to name calling at the table to try to get an edge. The big stack and I got along very well and when I was later eliminated he again apologized for always seeming to have the best of it when I picked up good hands too…I wished him and the others luck and left.
This was truly the most bizarre and confusing random act of anger I have ever seen. I mean I have never even spoken to this kid before! Clearly Aaron was steaming (he had a short stack) for reasons unbeknownst to me and he just decided to lose his **** for his own messed up reasons. Get some help buddy.
When Chad and I randomly ran into Aaron a few hours later in the hall of the Rio, Chad asked Aaron if he had a problem with me he wanted to address. Aaron didn’t deny a thing when Chad verified he had acted the way I had recounted. So Chad asked him to apologize and Aaron stood there in silence—not that I would think he would have the class to be a man and apologize for such blatantly indefensible rudeness. Chad stuck up for me the way I would hope any guy would stick up for their girlfriend when they are blatantly and FOR NO REAON (on the heels of an apology to the table for taking extra time no less!!) disrespected and essentially abused at the poker table.
I must have made a really easy target for Aaron. What a tough guy…he can pick on a 24 year old girl at a poker table when she has no recourse whatsoever but to ignore him…he must have felt really tough!!!
And as far as Aaron’s evaluation of my play: I might respect his opinion a little more if he actually had any results.
I play poker for a living. I am sorry that people have such disrespect for the game and for other humans in general that they can act how Aaron did. In my opinion, he degrades poker and himself when he acts like that. He was unsportsmanlike, rude, abusive, inappropriate, and genuinely seemed to enjoy his attempt to hurt me. I hate to break it to you Aaron, but the only thing ‘pathetic’ at that table, was you.
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sorry i have to ask but what the hell is an angry pirate?
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Damn, she does look like Gonzo.
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pariah
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06-19-2007 11:16 AM
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Glad I'm not the only one who was greatly amused by her "aggressive call."
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Adam
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06-19-2007 11:17 AM
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I don't know who initiated the trash talk, and I don't care. I stopped talking about "who started it" when I was about 12. I think Aaron knows as well as anyone that I respect him and think he's a smart, classy individual. This was a mistake, though....getting into verbal sparring matches usually is.
As far as Rousso's side of it, I'm certainly not sticking up for her. I don't know her and don't have any reason to defend her character.
As far as mind-boggling you or whatever, I don't even know how to respond, so I'm not going to bother. I'm not a judge and jury; I'm entitled to my opinion just like you are.
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pariah
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06-19-2007 11:20 AM
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when a woman is giving a man head, he pulls out, and nuts in her eye. Upon doing this, she will let out some sort of grunt of disapproval, and at this point he kicks her in the shin. This poor girl, being pissed and hurt, will hobble after your laughing ass. |
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BAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH its funny because he has acne!!!!
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WOW she really does look like gonzo! so sick!!
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Jesus.....that post actually makes me feel bad for engaging in arguments with YTIU. Kind of like arguing with the slow kid in school. I honestly feel bad.
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Hrmmm...I don't think I'd get into it with someone who just lost a significant hand. Clearly, taunting someone who is steaming is -EV.
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sheets
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06-19-2007 11:42 AM
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All I will say is, that if I did not know who she was talking about and the name was blocked out, I would have guessed it was Aaron (only becuase action jeff is under 21....(bax threw in that last line and wanted credit for it btw). They would be the first to take "credit" for the comments made so I am sure they will not take this thre wrong way.
Aaron Been pwns. Being 21 and knowing best is so cool...I remember it well.
The wsop is a very taxing experience and sometimes players who have played 536543184354 events in a row let their emotions get the best of them, and I think both vanessa and aaron are equally "guilty" in this regard....and chad brown too perhaps I dunno.
and regarding vanessas's claim of no results....AARON BEEN PWNS HU MIRAGE AND BEAT A GIRL IN THE PROCESS (kathy liebert) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Can I be the first to reply to sheets?
Sheets: I have spent the better part of the last 14 months searching for a link to that Paul Anka rant you posted in OT back in the day. Any info (zomg, link plz?) would be appreciated.
Kind regards,
Looking For Comedy
Mexico City
P.S. On a related note, I remember catching Aaron on one of his bad days a couple of months back. It went something like this...
dhubermex: Hey Aaron, why do dogs lick their ballz?
AaronB: Umm, i dunno... because your mother has a sore tongue?
I thought it was funny and immediately put Aaron on my A++++ buddy list.
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im like umm, vanessa russo, and um..like..um..i got 2 outed on the turn..and like um, this kid talked about how bad i play. so I go to my boyfriend, and like, um, tell him to beat him up...and he, umm, sticks up for me. I mean, like, who is this aaron guy anyway. Lke so redonkulous for him to like, tell me, a person who plays professionally, that I like played the hand bad.
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To the people saying shes ugly i suppose you've all got supermodels for girlfriends?
Granted shes not Eva mendes or anything but shes hardly ugly.
Get a life you pathetic wasters.
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sheets
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06-19-2007 12:25 PM
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just search google for "paul anka rant"
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